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HCMG Final Exam Questions And Answers.
Updated And Verified.
What is a Health Care System - Answer✔An organization of people, institutions and resources
that deliver healthcare services to meet the health needs of target populations.
Biomedical Model - Answer✔Presupposes the existence of illness/disease thereby emphasizing
clinical diagnosis and medical intervention in the treatment of disease.
Health Interventions - Answer✔Strategies to improve Health
-School nutrition programs
-patient safety protocols
-community-based partnerships
-care coordination
Fundamental Theories for health care distribution - Answer✔Market- individual responsibility
for health
Social- shared responsibility for health
Preindustrial Era - Answer✔-few medical school & hospitals
-Apprenticeships
-trade w/out prestige
-no tools or antisepsis
-medical care mainly in households
PostIndustrial Era - Answer✔-XRAYs discovered 1895
-cities more centralized
-lay people could no longer deliver medical care
-fewer house calls
-PROFESSIONALIZATION of healthcare
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Flexner Report - Answer✔Examination of medical schools. Closure of a lot of schools came
about.
Medicare - Answer✔One of the largest sources of public health insurance. Serves people over
65, disabled and people with End stage Renal disease.
Medicare Part A - Answer✔Social Security funds to finance hospital care
Medicare Part B - Answer✔covers physician services
Medicaid - Answer✔The third largest source of health insurance in the US. provides coverage
for low-income adults, children and elderly and individuals with disabilities.
Blue Cross - Answer✔hospital insurance
Blue Shield - Answer✔physican fees (both merges in the 1970's)
Corporate Era - Answer✔-1970's to present
-Managed care- control physician and hospital fees
-Integrated delivery system
-Information revolutions(telemedicine, e-health)
-Globilization-crossborder activities
3 Cornerstones of Healthcare delivery - Answer✔-High in COST
-Unequal in ACCESS
-Average in QUALITY
3 Reasons for High Health Care Costs - Answer✔1- Growth of technology- inexpensive
technology makes people live longer.
2- Increased Elderly Population- Elderly consume more health care costs than the general
population
3- Multipayer system & Administrative Costs- its takes a lot of time and effort to keep up with
all payers, single payer would cut administrative costs.
Ways to contain costs - Answer✔-EHRs should make it easier to share information between
physicians
-A new focus on prevention and chronic disease management should keep costs from rising
-ACA
Moral Hazard - Answer✔consumer behavior that leads to higher utilization of health care
services when services are covered by insurance.
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HCMG Final Exam Questions And Answers.
Updated And Verified.
What is a Health Care System - Answer✔An organization of people, institutions and resources
that deliver healthcare services to meet the health needs of target populations.
Biomedical Model - Answer✔Presupposes the existence of illness/disease thereby emphasizing
clinical diagnosis and medical intervention in the treatment of disease.
Health Interventions - Answer✔Strategies to improve Health
-School nutrition programs
-patient safety protocols
-community-based partnerships
-care coordination
Fundamental Theories for health care distribution - Answer✔Market- individual responsibility
for health
Social- shared responsibility for health
Preindustrial Era - Answer✔-few medical school & hospitals
-Apprenticeships
-trade w/out prestige
-no tools or antisepsis
-medical care mainly in households
PostIndustrial Era - Answer✔-XRAYs discovered 1895
-cities more centralized
-lay people could no longer deliver medical care
-fewer house calls
-PROFESSIONALIZATION of healthcare
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Flexner Report - Answer✔Examination of medical schools. Closure of a lot of schools came
about.
Medicare - Answer✔One of the largest sources of public health insurance. Serves people over
65, disabled and people with End stage Renal disease.
Medicare Part A - Answer✔Social Security funds to finance hospital care
Medicare Part B - Answer✔covers physician services
Medicaid - Answer✔The third largest source of health insurance in the US. provides coverage
for low-income adults, children and elderly and individuals with disabilities.
Blue Cross - Answer✔hospital insurance
Blue Shield - Answer✔physican fees (both merges in the 1970's)
Corporate Era - Answer✔-1970's to present
-Managed care- control physician and hospital fees
-Integrated delivery system
-Information revolutions(telemedicine, e-health)
-Globilization-crossborder activities
3 Cornerstones of Healthcare delivery - Answer✔-High in COST
-Unequal in ACCESS
-Average in QUALITY
3 Reasons for High Health Care Costs - Answer✔1- Growth of technology- inexpensive
technology makes people live longer.
2- Increased Elderly Population- Elderly consume more health care costs than the general
population
3- Multipayer system & Administrative Costs- its takes a lot of time and effort to keep up with
all payers, single payer would cut administrative costs.
Ways to contain costs - Answer✔-EHRs should make it easier to share information between
physicians
-A new focus on prevention and chronic disease management should keep costs from rising
-ACA
Moral Hazard - Answer✔consumer behavior that leads to higher utilization of health care
services when services are covered by insurance.
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